| Michael-5 said: I already said what I had to say. The economic system in Russia mirrors the ideals of Capitalism much more then the high corporate tax and left wing agenda of USA, Canada, and EU. My point was technology was the main reason for the improvements in life quality in USA, not the economic structure, and that's largely true. While more people are unemployed now then before, the average lifestyle is better. People don't really starve to death anymore unless they have a serious mental illness and live on the street. So economic equality and democracy do go hand and hand. |
You mean the economic system in which the means of production is mostly owned by the state versus the economic systems found in Canada, U.S, and the EU in which there is a higher degree of private ownership, in most of these countries surpassing that of the state? My argument was that without free-markets and the concept of private property we wouldn't have the technologies that have benefitted the lives of the poor.
